Aphonogram orphonograph (fromAncient Greekphōnḗ'sound' +grắphō'writing') is a basic unit of writing (orgrapheme) that represents a sound used when speaking a particular language,[1] like aphoneme orsyllable. For example, in the English wordhigh,⟨igh⟩ is a grapheme representing the phoneme/aɪ/—while⟨igh⟩ is written using threeletters potentially treated as distinct in other contexts, they cannot be analyzed separately in this case, as the intended sound is only indicated when read as a single unit. While the wordphoneme refers to the sound itself,phonogram instead refers to the written representation of the sound.[2]
Awriting system that consists of phonograms shows phonography, and can be calledphonographic.[2] Phonograms are contrasted withlogograms, graphemes that represent units of meaning likewords,morphemes, anddeterminatives (silent characters used to marksemantic categories).
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